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1 Tackoe - George III
| Issuer | Ghana |
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| Year | 1796 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central crowned royal cypher 'GR' (Georgius Rex) in cursive script, enclosed within a laurel wreath. The date 1796 appears at the top of the field, divided by the crown surmounting the cypher. The overall design is rendered in a clean, engraved style typical of late 18th-century British colonial coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Latin (cursive) |
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The Tackoe was struck for the African Company of Merchants, the successor body to the Royal African Company, which held a British government charter to manage trade forts along the Gold Coast. These pieces were produced in Birmingham and shipped to West Africa for use in local commerce — not as colonial legal tender in any formal sense, but as a trading token intended to facilitate transactions at company posts. George III's name on the issue is essentially a legitimizing fiction; the coin served the company's commercial interests, not the Crown's monetary policy.
KM#Tn1 designation reflects its token status in numismatic classification — a distinction that matters for provenance and collecting context.